William excell baker



W. BBAKER.

WASHING MAGHINE.

Patented Dec. 3, 1895.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM EXOELL BAKER, OF ALDERSHOT, ENGLAND.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 550,672, .dated December 3, 1895.

Application filed March 23, 1595. Serial No.542,946. (No model.) Patented in England November 20, 1893, No. 221,145, and VLamnay 1s, 1894, No. 770.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, WILLIAM EXCELL BAKER, laundry lnanagena subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Fairview, Redan lllill, Aldershot, England, have i11- vented certain new and useful Improvements in \Vashing-lviaehines, (for which I have received Letters Patent in Great Britain, No.

22,145, dated November 20, 1893, and No. 7 7 O,

dated January 13, 1894,)l of which the following isa specification.

My invention has forits obj ect improvements in washing-machines. For this purpose Iconstrnet a washing-machine of an inner cylinder or receptacle and an enter cylinder or casing, the inner cylinder being capable of revolving in bearings and being caused to rotate and reverse by suitable gearing. Upon the outside of the ends of such inner cylinder or near thereto I cast or iix blades after the manner of air or water propellers,so that as these revolve with (or upon the saine axis as) the inner cylinder the water contained in the outer casing will be carried or forced by such propellingblades through perforations or suitable openings fornied in the ends of such inner cylinder and into the clothes contained therein, and I also assist the circulation by screw or helical ribs `upon the enter surface of the inner cylinder. I do not claim the latter generally under the present application, as they form the subject of a separate application iiled simultaneously herewith, Serial No. ifll.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows a longitudinalcentral section through the outer cylinder, the inner cylinder being shown in side elevation. Fig shows an end view of the inner cylinder. Fig. 3 shows a longitudinal central section of one end of the inner cylinder.

a is the inner cylinder, A the outer cylind er, and I3 bearin gs in the latter. The easing of the inner cylinder is bolted to the rim b, V

which is cast in onev piece with the bla-des c, forming the spokes, and the hub d.

e is a perforated sheet of metal held between enter aswell as the inner cylinder is caused to rotate these ribs maybe iiXed to the inner surface of the outer cylinder. as sh own in Fig. 1.

It is preferred that the inner cylinder should have a central transverse partition, as has before been proposed in other machines and indicated in dottedlines w in Fig. 1. '.ihe inner cylinder, it will be observed, is perforated on its periphery, and is also open at each end. Propelling-blades may be employed at both ends of the cylinder or at one end only. When two sets of blades are employed, one will act to propel the liquid into the cylinder while the other acts as an exhaust. The helical or screw ribs canse the liquid to pass from one end of the cylinder toward the other and assist the blades in keeping up a circulation through and around the cylinder.

W'hat I claim is- 1. Ina washing machine the combination of an outer cylinder, an inner cylinder, an axle connecting the inner with the outer cylinder, propelling blades c revolving with or upon the axle and ribs f, between the outer and inner cylinders, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the outer perforated cylinder, the innercylinder open at each end and perforated on'iis periphery, helical ribs arranged on the periphery of the inner eyline der and propellerA blades revolving with the inner cylinder and co-operaiing with the ribs thereof to canse a circulation around and through the eylinderand the material io be cleansed contained therein. l

WILLIAM EXCELL BAKER.

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Roni?. l.. BATEMAN, GEORGE GnEENwoon.

It is hereby certied that in Letters Patent No. 550,672, granted December` 3, 1,895,

upon the application of William Excell Baker, of Aldershot, England, for an improvement in Washing-Machines, errors appear in the printed specication requiring the following corrections, Viz.: 4In line 82, the Word perforated, at the end Of the line should be stricken out and the same inserted after the word inner in line 83, same page; and that the said Letters Patent should be read With these corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Oice.

Signed, countersigned, and sealed this 27th day of October, A. D., 1896.

JNO. M. REYNOLDS, Assistant Secretary of the Interior.

[SEALI Countersign'ed JOHN S. SEYMOUR, 4

Commissioner of Patents. 

